Friendly societies, educational associations and trade unions gave working people the power to shape their own lives. — Liz Kendall Copy Share Image
All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical. — Henry George Copy Share Image
... it is the spirit of trade unionism that is most important, the service of fellowship, the feeling that the hurt of… — Rose Schneiderman Copy Share Image
I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small… — Saffron Burrows Copy Share Image
Getting political representation is important, but change comes through using direct action, campaigning, and trade unions. — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace… — Leon Jouhaux Copy Share Image
On the one hand the world is getting more integrated and we should not dismiss social values as "Western" when they are… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
“Do you still believe i public opinion? Well let me tell you public opinion is a gimmick thought up by the English… — Antonio Tabucci Copy Share Image
Trade unions have stood at the front lines of struggles for democratic change and social justice throughout history. In many countries, we… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very… — Arthur Scargill Copy Share Image
We have a series of regular meetings with South African business. Big business. Black business. Agriculture. As well, of course, with the… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Under Ronald Reagan in the United States and Margaret Thatcher in the U.K., there was a rewriting of the basic rules of… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
We consider ourselves to be free because no one in our society is allowed unlimited powerno leader, faction, party or 'class', no… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better… — Frances O'Grady Copy Share Image
“Believing that, in alliance with the proletariat, they have singled out in capitalism the common enemy, the young abandon their own ground,… — Carla Lonzi Copy Share Image
“The moral is, never be sorry for a waiter. Sometimes when you sit in a restaurant, still stuffing yourself half an hour… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Lancastrian workers, the dumb and dignified beasts of burden that line the Road to Wigan Pier, thronged tours by Soviet leaders, workers,… — Owen Hatherley Copy Share Image
From the time I entered cabinet, the emphasis was on reforms, but reforms which did not abolish separate development, but reforms which… — Frederik Willem de Klerk Copy Share Image
“There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the number of Asians in England, by… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Over the years I have had much occasion to ponder this word, the intelligentsia . We are all very fond of including… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Many years later, after Niemöller had been imprisoned for eight years in concentration camps as the personal prisoner of Adolf Hitler, he… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
“Another blatant case of regress as part of the capitalist progress is the enormous rise of precarious work. Precarious work deprives workers… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers. — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press,… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
The Left forces have a strong and growing presence in universities, youth organizations, and among trade unions and farmer organizations... This strength… — Pinarayi Vijayan Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit is a great worker, not a 'trade unionist.' He is a great worker, and He works in us, always.… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action,… — Arthur Scargill Copy Share Image
The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be… — Leon Jouhaux Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Security was the demand which set in motion labour movements in history; trade unions, friendly societies, consumer cooperatives were all about compensating… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
There are established processes of consultation between the Government, the parastatals and the trade unions, which have worked in the past. And… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number… — Fritz Sauckel Copy Share Image
The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected,… — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image
Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they… — Frances O'Grady Copy Share Image
GLHR... has used Greenpeace-style media antics to draw more public attention to the plight of sweatshop workers than the multimillion - dollar… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
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